Zombie! Panicky! Confusion! The end is coming!

After the catastrophe, the once prosperous city has become a dilapidated ruin, the vast majority of human beings have either died, or become infected and turned into zombies who choose people to eat, the economic environment has shrunk and regressed for decades, and human society has almost collapsed.

After a bloody and long period of adaptation, the remaining human beings erected towering walls and hid in safe zones.

Human civilization once again shone a faint light, and in the safe zone surrounded by high walls, the chains of order slowly and fragile unfolded, trying to bind hungry, anxious souls.

……

In the first year of the new era, 0020, the infection zone 200 kilometers north of the No. 4 safety zone in Hua District.

On a dilapidated street, a small group of seven or eight men was slowly advancing under the cover of night, all dressed in tatters, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were in rags. In each person's hands were iron and wooden rods of different lengths.

At the end of the line, a tall young man with a solid steel baseball bat, his eyes shining, cautiously scanned his surroundings.

The young man's name is Ling Tian, twenty years old, 1.83 meters tall, with broad shoulders and broad back, and he is a typical northerner in China.

If you look closely at Ling Tian's face, you will find that he has long sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a square nose and mouth, and he is a handsome and handsome young man.

But at this time, he looked very sloppy, not to mention the gray face, the whole person was bearded, the hair that was not long seemed to be oily and stuck together, and there was an unbearable smell all over the body.

But Ling Tian himself didn't mind, he just clenched the baseball bat with both hands, looked around with a frown, and walked at the end of the line in a posture that looked very strange and careful.

It's a makeshift squad of "waste pickers", or garbage pickers, who search through ruined and abandoned cities, collect supplies, and earn a living in exchange for a small pay.

It's a very risky job, it's dangerous, and every time you set out, someone will never come back. But the pay is pitifully low, and there are many people who follow the team in the infected area for a few days without finding anything.

The team walked cautiously through the streets, lest they make a noise, and most of the shops on both sides of the road were dark. In the bright moonlight, only sporadic rats would make noises from time to time.

The evening breeze was blowing, and in front of the store on the sidewalk, the broken billboards flapped on the walls irregularly.

The weather in October was a little cold, but Ling Tian was sweating all over his body.

"Something is wrong, something is really wrong!" Ling Tian's heart was a little uneasy, he had been begging for a living in the infected area when he was fifteen or sixteen, so he had cultivated a very rich survival experience and a strong sense of vigilance.

He has been to this county-level city of 0209 dozens of times, but this is the first time that it is so abnormal, it is the third day that the team has infiltrated the infected area, and there are no large-scale zombie groups along the way.

Most of them are scattered "lone rangers", powerless in the face of the steel pipes and iron rods in the hands of the team.

It was precisely because of the decrease in the number of zombies that the team easily infiltrated the center of the county-level city of No. 0209 this time.

"Be careful, make a noise, everyone is finished!" At the front of the line, a strong man at the head of the group, holding a wooden baseball bat with a head full of nails, whispered a warning.

Afterwards, the whole team became more cautious, and everyone could even hear each other's nervous breathing and heartbeat, except for the sound of the wind.

Ling Tian carried a black tight-fitting package on his back, and hung cautiously behind the group, in a position where he would not follow too closely, nor would he fall behind.

Soon, the team groped their way to the destination of the trip, a large supermarket in the city center.

The sturdy man in the lead led the two guys to the main entrance of the supermarket quickly, leaned against the door carefully, and then took out a strong flashlight from his arms and carefully glanced around the store.

Everywhere the flashlight passed, it was a mess, and even in the more dangerous downtown area, the hypermarket had already been ransacked many times by several of the same "scavengers" squad.

Looking at the empty shelves that had been looted, the leading man's eyebrows were twisted into a pimple, but he still waved his hand to the team behind him: "Enter!" Watch your step! ”

Hearing the leader's words, the people behind him, who were already impatient, hurriedly rushed in and ran to their favorite areas to explore the supplies.

Ling Tian still followed the last of the line, but he didn't rush into the supermarket, but first went around to the side of the supermarket to carefully check the location of the fire escape and safety exit, and then returned to the main entrance to enter.

In the supermarket, everyone who entered in advance was in twos and threes with their companions to gather supplies where there were still goods.

In the kitchen supplies area on the inside of the first floor, a young couple is carefully exploring with a flashlight.

"How? Momo, is there anything else? The young man asked his girlfriend with a flashlight in his left hand and a slender wooden stick in his right hand.

"There must be this piece, don't worry!" The girl wore a double ponytail, lowered her voice excitedly, and kept rummaging through the dark and cluttered shelves with her hands.

I flipped through it for a while, only to hear "Bang! There was a crisp sound, and the sound of metal pounding was heard.

"Found it!" The girl roared excitedly.

The young man swept it with a flashlight, and sure enough, on the shelves on the ground floor, bundles of stainless steel spatulas were turned out by the girl.

Since the outbreak of the zombie crisis, large areas of land have been barren, and the remaining human living space and environmental resources have been squeezed to the point of collapse. A large number of factories, steel mills, and even power plants have been hit hard like never before.

And assembly line products such as stainless steel spatulas that used to be seen everywhere have now become hot goods. Whether the metal is recycled and forged, or used directly, it can be sold at a good price.

"Hey, hey, quick! Load! The girl smirked, pulled the huge hiking bag on her boyfriend's back, unzipped it, and stuffed bundles of spatulas into it.

Stacks of spatulas collided in the backpack, making a constant screeching sound.

"Slow...... Slow down, you slow down. The young man was half-hunched, sweating profusely, his heart beating violently, and he kept licking his dry lips. The stiff body didn't notice that in the dark corner not far away, a twisted figure slowly approached.

At the front entrance of the supermarket, Ling Tian was inspecting the third cash register with sturdy deerskin gloves on his hands and a multi-functional flashlight in his mouth. The people around who were searching for supplies couldn't help but shake their heads one after another, the end of the world is coming, and the currency of the past has long been eliminated and cannot be circulated.

The currency in circulation in the society is either the Asian dollar introduced by the coalition government of the Asian Union, or the hard currency such as gold, silver, and diamonds.

Either barter, but in the chaotic infected areas, the circulation of money is chaotic and supplies are scarce, so there are more barters.

Ling Tian held a flashlight in his hand and carefully checked the cash register, ignoring the surprised gazes of others.

The third one didn't, Ling Tian gently closed the cabinet door, not discouraged, wiped the sweat from the door of his head, got up again and walked lightly to the fourth cash register.

Walking to the cash register, Ling Tian did not open the drawer to get the banknotes as everyone imagined, but kept groping around in the cabinet under the cash register.

Suddenly, Ling Tian touched a heavy metal object.

"There it is!" Ling Tian was overjoyed in his heart.

I saw Ling Tian take out an iron jar from the small cabinet under the cash register, Ling Tian gently held the heavy iron jar in his arms and opened it to take a look.

Really!

I saw that the jar was full of coins that were circulating before the first century!

Although these coins are no longer in circulation in the market, the metal value and collectible value of their alloys still exist, and before the cataclysm, many large, medium, and small supermarkets would have this kind of container for storing a large number of coins at the cash register, which was the valuable experience that Ling Tian had accumulated over the years in scavenging in the infected area.

Ling Tian opened the box, carefully took out a handful of coins, and shone it with a flashlight.

It is the fourth set of coins issued in China in 1992 before the first century, which is the most common flower series coins, and its materials are one dime of aluminum-zinc alloy, five corners of copper-zinc alloy and one yuan of steel core nickel plating.

Holding the heavy iron can, Ling Tian's mouth grinned to the root of his ears, this trip was not in vain after all.

"That's enough to eat for a week!"

Just as Ling Tian was complacent with the coin jar, a pair of worn-out hiking boots appeared beside him.

"It's a big gain! Brother! Show me what the condition is. ”

As soon as Ling Tian looked up, he saw a tall and thin man with a mouth full of yellow teeth, and said to him with a grin, and as he spoke, he directly reached for the coin jar.

Ling Tian frowned, and hid the jar behind him without a trace, this person was the companion of the leading strong man, who was left at the main entrance of the supermarket at this time to watch the wind.

Looking at the coin jar behind Ling Tian, the thin and tall man felt happy in his heart, he had been observing this kid for a long time, judging from the way he was dressed, he could see that this kid was a veteran of "picking up garbage", as expected.

"This batch of goods can be exchanged for at least more than two hundred yuan in cash!" The tall and thin man licked his lips, his slender triangular eyes flashing with greed.

"I asked you to show me, didn't you hear? I'm from OUCC! Seeing that Ling Tian was unmoved, the thin and tall man glared at the beads of his eyes and roared, and then showed Ling Tian the red logo on his chest.

The full name of the Eastern Union is the "Eastern Alliance", a social organization active in several living towns outside of Security Zone 4, this organization controls the scavenging rights of several small infected areas outside the area, and it also does everything in its own sphere of influence.

If you want to enter the infected area to search for daily necessities, but you don't have the strength to break in alone, then you can choose to form a team, and OUCC takes on a lot of team leader work and the purchase of materials after returning to the living town.

Ling Tian has been begging for a living outside the district since he was a child, and he has also run in the infected area for four or five years, so he is also very familiar with this organization, and with his strength, he can easily join, and even take the position of team leader, but Ling Tian is really not interested in the style of this organization.

"I can't see it, I want to see it myself." Ling Tian didn't get up in a hurry, and replied without being salty, but the gloved hand had already quietly touched behind him.

"Hehe, you are so embarrassed, aren't you......" The thin and tall man touched a soft nail, and he was not annoyed, he took out a short knife directly from his arms, and was about to continue to say cruel words.

"Ah!!h

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from inside the supermarket.

The tall and thin man turned his head when he heard the sound, and his hand holding the short knife froze in mid-air.

"Poof!"

As soon as the tall and thin man turned around, Ling Tian, who was originally honestly squatting on the ground, suddenly jumped up, holding down the wrist of the tall thin man holding the knife with one hand, and holding a dagger from his back waist in his right hand, and stabbed the thin and tall man in the abdomen!